Police assaulted his father, arrested his brother and laid a new charge against Chris Sheriffe. Then his mom overhears a cop at court: ‘two down, one to go’
A police officer with the gang information says Chris Sheriffe is the leader of a dangerous gang called “The Hustle Squad.” A gang so mysterious, no members of the elite police Guns and Gangs Squad has ever heard of them.
Chris is out on bail leading up to the trial. pc28Police show up at his house one night. They end up assaulting his father, arresting his brother, and not long after Chris’s bail is revoked when a new charge is laid against him. Marjorie, Chris’s mom, overhears police officers give an ominous warning about the men in her family and she goes into high gear – she’s in the fight of her life against Toronto’s finest. Then comes another bombshell. That young police officer with the gang information says Chris is the leader of a dangerous gang called “The Hustle Squad.” A gang so mysterious, no members of the elite police Guns and Gangs Squad has ever heard of them.
Suspicion
Chief Investigative Reporter Kevin Donovan, who brought you the Billionaire Murders, is back with Murder on Mount Olive, an investigation of a crime the courts closed the book on in 2012. On a sunny day in August, 2009, a man is shot three times at a barbecue. What happens that day will put a budding young soccer star turned carpenter behind bars for life for a crime he says he didn’t commit. This is the story of Christopher Sheriffe and his fight for justice.
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Kevin Donovan is the Star’s chief investigative reporter based
in Toronto. He can be reached at 416-312-3503 or via email:
kdonovan@thestar.ca.
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